Printed on the plate
“Pine Swamp Warbler”
Modern identification
Setophaga caerulescens
- Certain
- A variant
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Pine Swamp Warbler” (Sylvia sphagnosa), figured as a species, is the female or young Black-throated Blue Warbler, as he wrote in 1839; its main plate is 155.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon, F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed, & Coloured, by R. Havell, London, 1832.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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